Ignominious and Pale · Necrophagist

207 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 232 BPM, 2:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 12, and 23 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 232 BPM
IGNOMINIOUS AND PALE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 50 more.

LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 16 sections: 115 keep time, 56 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-120.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART A
PART AI
PART AU
PART BA
9 groovesBAAIBAP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ignominious and Pale?

232 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ignominious and Pale hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 26 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ignominious and Pale?

19 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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